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I am currently seeking brilliant and highly motivated students and postdocs to join my research group at Cornell University in 2017. If you believe to be an exceptional candidate with interests in electromagnetism, metamaterials, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and/or acoustics/mechanics please feel free to contact me, or pass along the information to potential candidates.

Two openings for graduate students will be available (for prospective students, please see application requirements and deadlines of the Cornell ECE graduate program). One Postdoctoral position will be available for an outstanding candidate. Interested candidates should email their CV and a brief description of their interests.

My experience in three different continents has given me the opportunity to come in touch with stimulating, world-class research environments, with leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe. Wherever I work, I always bring with me a robust background in engineering and physics, a zest for challenges, an inextinguishable self-motivation, and an enthusiastic desire to learn all I can.

July 20, 2015: Francesco Monticone has received an IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship! “The IEEE Photonics Society established the Graduate Student Fellowship Program to provide Graduate Fellowships to outstanding Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Society field of interest (electro-optics, lasers, photonics, optics, or closely related fields)”. The Society awards up to ten Fellowships each year worldwide, based on research excellence and contributions to the Society’s publications and conferences. This award has been featured in the UT ECE News.

May 26, 2015: Our paper F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Leaky-Wave Theory, Techniques and Applications: From Microwaves to Visible Frequencies,” has been published in the Proceedings of the IEEE, accompanied by a prolog by J. Esch !

December, 2014: Our work on “Doing Math with Light” has been selected and published in the Special Issue of Optics and Photonics News, “Optics in 2014”. This special issue highlights the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months.

November 21, 2014: Francesco Monticone is officially a PhD Candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

March 27, 2014: Our invited review paper F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Metamaterials and Plasmonics: From Nanoparticles to Nanoantenna Arrays, Metasurfaces and Metamaterials” has been published in Chinese Physics B, Vol. 23, No. 4, 047809. It is currently the most downloaded paper of the journal issue, with more than 400 downloads in few days. It is already in the list of the most downloaded papers published in the last one year.

November 26, 2013: Our paper on metamaterial-enhanced nanophotonics has been selected and published in the Special Issue of Optics and Photonics News, “Optics in 2013”. This special issue highlights the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months.

November 7, 2013: Francesco’s IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award has been featured in the UT ECE News.

October 29, 2013: Francesco Monticone has received an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award. The annual award is only given to a few students worldwide and is based on their current research achievements and potential to become future leaders in the electromagnetics research community. The award will be announced in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.

September 19, 2013: F. Monticone has won the 1st prize at the Metamaterials 2013 Student Paper Competition with the paper F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “On the Physical Bounds of Cloaking and Invisibility” !

September 6, 2013: F. Monticone has won an Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Award from Optical Society of America (OSA).

May 14, 2013: Our paper F. Monticone, N. Mohammadi Estakhri, and A. Alù, “Full Control of Nanoscale Optical Transmission with a Composite Metascreen,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, No. 20, 203903 (5 pages). The paper has been selected as PRL Editor’s suggestion!

March 18, 2013: Our conference paper F. Monticone, Xiaoqin Li, and A. Alù, “Strong Optical Magnetism and Fano Resonances in Asymmetric Plasmonic Metamolecules”, submitted to the Student Paper Competition of the 2013 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation to be held in Orlando, Florida has been selected for an Honorable Mention!

February 19, 2013: Watch my advisor Dr. Andrea Alù talking about metamaterials and invisibility in this intriguing TEDx Talk! Coverage from the UT Cockrell School of Engineering and the script are here.

February 6, 2013: Our paper F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Multi-Layered Plasmonic Covers for Comb-Like Scattering Response and Optical Tagging,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. This paper has been selected as Editor’s suggestion!

December 3, 2012: the invited paper F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Layered Plasmonic Cloaks to Tailor the Optical Scattering at the Nanoscale,” has been published in Scientific Reports, Special Issue for E-MRS 2012, Vol. 2, No. 912.